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  Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 A SpaceX rocket carrying a Russian crew member blasted off from Florida Wednesday on a voyage that carries significant symbolism as war rages in Ukraine. Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts. "Let's do this," said Nicole Mann, commander of the Crew Dragon capsule and the first Native American in space, shortly before liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at noon. Docking is sc ... read more |
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SpaceX's Crew 5 mission blasts off to International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Oct 5, 2021 NASA and SpaceX's Crew 5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at noon EDT on Wednesday and is on its way to the International Space Station. ... more 
SpinLaunch completes Flight Test 10Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 SpinLaunch has announced the results of its tenth successful Flight Test of its Suborbital Accelerator from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight test, which occurred on September 27, 2022, demo ... more 
Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys customer payloads with its Alpha RocketCedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2022 Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on ... more  
Concert Technologies to use C6 Launch to launch its satellitesStrathroy, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Concert Technologies and C6 Launch signed a non exclusive launch services agreement. Under the agreement, C6 Launch will provide launch services for several of Concert's satellites to low Earth orbi ... more |
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China begins search for fourth astronaut generationBeijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022 China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said ... more 
NASA eyes November for launch attempt of Moon rocketWashington (AFP) Oct 03, 2022 NASA said Friday it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. ... more 
Rocket Lab to launch environmental monitoring satellite for General AtomicsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch its 31st Electron rocket and 151st satellite to orbit during a dedicated mission for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) on Fr ... more 
Elon Musk may help NASA extend life for HubbleWashington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 The U.S. space agency, NASA, said it signed an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to study whether the life expectancy of the venerated Hubble Space Telescope can be extended. ... more |
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NRO awards commercial RF Capabilities Contract to Kleos SpaceLuxembourg (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 Kleos Space Inc, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider, has been awarded a first stage contract, from the National Reconnai ... more 
HawkEye 360 awarded radio frequency contract by NROHerndon VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, reports it has been awarded a contract from the NRO's Commercial Systems Program Off ... more  
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to deliver hypersonic air-breathing missile to USSFTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise M ... more  
Trackem Launches New GPS Business Tracking PlatformBrantford, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 Trackem GPS has officially launched its latest version of its client facing GPS tracking platform. The software launch has been 18 months in the making, for the 18-year-old business GPS fleet tracki ... more |
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NASA postpones Crew-5 mission over Hurricane IanWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2021 NASA is shifting the launch date of its Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station in the wake of Hurricane Ian, the space agency confirmed. ... more 
Three Russian cosmonauts return from space stationMoscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 Three Russian cosmonauts touched down Thursday on the steppe of Kazakhstan following a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. ... more 
Satellite Vu signs SpaceX launch contract to deploy thermal monitoring capabilitiesLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 British Earth Observation company, Satellite Vu has signed a second SpaceX launch contract for their second satellite, doubling their thermal data collection capacity, faster than planned, amidst ri ... more 
NASA awards commercial Small Satellite Data Acquisition AgreementWashington DC (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 NASA has selected GHGSat, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to provide commercial small constellation satellite products for evaluation to determine the utility for advancing NASA's science and app ... more 
Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command ISSParis (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space. ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 
Nuclear fusion reactions in the sun are the source of heat and light we receive on Earth. These reactions release a massive amount of cosmic radiation - including x-rays and gamma rays - and charged particles that can be harmful for any living organisms.
Life on Earth has been protected thanks to a magnetic field that forces charged particles to bounce from pole to pole as well as an atmos ... more |
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HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, reports it has been awarded a contract from the NRO's Commercial Systems Program Office (CSPO). The contract will assess, mature, integrate, and operationalize commercial RF intelligence into the NRO's integrated overhead architecture to support warfighters, the intelligence communit ... more |
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 Brantford, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Trackem GPS has officially launched its latest version of its client facing GPS tracking platform. The software launch has been 18 months in the making, for the 18-year-old business GPS fleet tracking company. The tall task of client migration has begun and is expected to be ongoing for a number of months ahead.
Trackem's new software platform was built to deliver on three main principles, ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Sept 30, 2022 
Fighter jet engines whined this week on a stretch of highway in central Finland, where the military trained on stretches of road that double as spare landing strips.
As one of Finland's dozens of reserve runways, the empty highway near the town of Joutsa, hosted an annual air force exercise with F/A-18 Hornets taking off and landing.
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 New York (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
Micron announced Tuesday it will invest up to $100 billion to build semiconductors in New York state, capitalizing on US policies to boost domestic manufacturing of key goods.
The chip giant, which is based in the western state of Idaho, said it plans to begin construction in 2024 on a project expected to be executed over two decades.
New York state is providing $5.5 billion in state in ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 25, 2022 
Following preparatory activities and a stringent process ESA Member States today formally selected Harmony for implementation as the tenth Earth Explorer mission within the FutureEO programme. This unique satellite mission concept is, therefore, now set to become a reality to provide a wealth of new information about our oceans, ice, earthquakes and volcanoes - which will make significant contri ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 30, 2022  Germany said Friday that mass fish deaths in the Oder river were a "man-made environmental disaster", blaming toxic algae growth sparked by the introduction of salt into the waters.
Presenting a report into the disaster that saw at least 300 tonnes of dead fish pulled from the river in Germany and Poland this summer, the German environment ministry said the most likely cause was "a sudden in ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022 
China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The agency said in a news release on Sunday afternoon experts will pick 12 to 14 candidates for the new generation. Among them, seven to eight will be spacecraft pilots, three to four will be ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone.
The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a U.S. and Australia p ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for the first time by a team of physicists from (MLU). They report on their work in the scientific journal Nature Communications and provide the first microscopic images of these spin waves.
The basic idea of spintronics is to use a special ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Oct 1, 2022 
Elon Musk on Friday showed off the latest version of a humanoid robot that the world's richest man said could one day eliminate poverty.
An Optimus prototype wheeled on stage during an annual Tesla AI Day presentation was mounted to a small platform. The robot, which remains a work-in-progress, waved to the audience and raised its knees.
"Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as qu ... more |
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 Odessa, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
In Ukraine's port city of Odessa, residents have recently found themselves hiding not from the thunder of rocket attacks but from the whir of buzzing Iranian drones in the sky.
The machines have been playing an important role since Russia invaded seven months ago - forming part of reconnaissance operations, missile firings or bomb drops.
Awakened with a start on Saturday morning by a ro ... more |
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